Saturday, February 28, 2015

Huzzah! I have been looking forward to making a few banner bearers for the Napoleanics!

In the end, I printed the banners so that they would be the correct size, and not be shiny! The banners that came in the box were very stiff on shiny stock. I printed them on a more flexible stock, so that they could be shaped a bit.

I used weathering powders to shade it, and painted around the edges to hide any cut lines, etc.

Friday, February 27, 2015

We have Walks Looking of the Dark Nation, who has been turned away from the path set by the Great Spirit. Corrupted by vanity and the use of RJ-1027, she now leads the fallen warriors and beasts of this sinister posse.

I had a great deal of fun painting this, using seafoam green and pink to create many of the gray colors on the flesh and wings. These gave a little more depth to the skin colors, which is very important on a limited palette exercise such as this.

Since the clothes and weapons were not going to be bright and shiny either, it could have become very boring. So, I attempted to add interest to the wings to create a 'frame' around the figure.

I also wanted them to be somewhat lighter, so that the darker colors of the clothes could stand out a bit.

I'm sure she will be every bit as nasty on the battlefield as she was in her Warrior Nation days!

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

With the Wild West Exodus kickstarter just days away, we have the first of four new faction leaders, or Bosses.

Meet Ponce De Leon, who has apparently discovered the Fountain of Youth. It's not the most pleasant process, but eternal youth has its purposes!

He leads the Golden Army, one of four new factions that will join the existing six.

I look forward to painting all of them, but painting an army with this style army will be a real blast!!!!

The cloak also involved one of my favorite color combinations... that is, a deep red lightened with a rotting flesh type of color. This keeps the reds from getting too orange, but there is enough yellow in that greenish shade to prevent the cloak from becoming pink.

I used a more orange type of color to lighten the inside of the cloak, and I used a lot of Fluorescent yellow in the golds. That gave it quite a sparkle, as always!

With the Sukubus Studios fabulous Blood Bowl team prepped and primed, I wanted to do something fun with the bases. Yeah, you know me and bases. An addiction to the extreme.

I decided to make some broken marble bases, so that I could either paint demon faces into it, or glowing runes... or both!

I thought I would put a few Secret Weapon Miniatures skulls and torsos on a few of the bases to create even more variety between each one.

It's VERY important in Blood Bowl for each figure to be easily distinguished from each other. Otherwise, it gets very confusing, and you start forgetting skills, etc.

The tentacles are going to be a bit more simple here, as I wanted them to fit in with what some of the miniatures have as hair, and so on.

The Secret Weapon parts made a nice base for extra tentacle arms!

What would Chaos bases be without a few random orifices. I will be adding more of these once the tentacles have set up. That's a hard lesson we learned years ago with green stuff. Do a little section at a time on a lot of figures, so that you avoid the temptation of messing around with the next step.

This usually leads to you destroying whatever fantastic thing you just sculpted.

Cathy found out years ago that if you manipulate the mixture of the green stuff, you can make it more sturdy, such as having a higher percentage of blue in the mix. While you can't sculpt as many details into this, the very thin tentacles will be more likely to hold their shape as it cures!

I did this on the more "free standing" tentacles, such as this one.

In contrast, having more yellow in the mix makes it softer, and far easier to get nice details.

It's also a lot stickier than the predominantly blue mix, and that can serve as a 'glue' to anchor a tentacle or two!

I did that here, as I wanted to sculpt a few fine shapes on the marble, which would be a nice anchor for larger, free standing tentacles.

While wrapping the tentacle around a leg works very nicely for the theme of the basing, there is a practical side to this method. There were a few miniatures that I could not pin to the bases, like this one.

So, the tentacle is providing a lot of extra stability for a miniature that will be knocked over many times... making it less likely to snap off the base.

I will be doing some eyeballs as well on the other bases when they cure!